Guest Editor Ekua BiritwumNumerous studies have sought to unravel the social and economic dynamics of rural women’s constraints in accessing and controlling productive resources in agriculture. A focus largely informed by the high prevalence of poverty amongst rural women. At the policy level there have been several interventions to overcome resource access constraints to boost…
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Feminist Africa 2020 – Volume 2, Issue 1: Resistance to Extractivism and the Search for Alternatives
International public and private sector players are currently exhibiting considerable predatory interest in Africa, viewing the continent as a source of vast natural resources as well as potential markets. This is happening at a time when deepening fractures and inequalities within African countries, increasing immiseration and soaring unemployment characterise living conditions across the continent. Growth…
Call for Submissions: Feminist Africa 2021: Gender and Sexuality in African Futurism -Volume 2, Issue 2
Deadline for Submissions: 1st September 2020All submissions and enquiries should be emailed to: info@feministafrica.net Guest Editor: Jacqueline-Bethel MougouéHow does the African Futurist genre (re)imagine gender norms, sexual identities, and issues of feminism on the continent? This special issue will explore questions of gender and sexuality in“African Futurism,” a term that has gained currency since Nigerian-American…
Edwina Ashie-Nikoi
Edwina Ashie-Nikoi is an archivist and historian of the African Diaspora with particular interest in the ways peoples of African descent choose to document themselves. Among other aspects, her research interrogates the gendered dimensions of how experiences of subjugation and oppression are remembered and represented. Dr. Ashie-Nikoi holds a PhD in History from New York…
Feminist Africa 22 : Feminists Organising — Strategy, Voice, Power
The focus of Feminist Africa 22 – “Feminists Organising” – implies a vision, a sense of alternative possibilities of greater social justice alongside the liberation of women from all sources of oppression, and collective feminist energies being mobilised to bring about change in this direction. How have feminists in Africa organised and what are the…
Dzodzi Tsikata
Dzodzi Tsikata is Research Professor and Director of the Institute of African Studies (IAS) at the University of Ghana. Her teaching, research and advocacy are in the areas of gender and development policies and practices; the gendered political economy of agrarian change; and informal labour relations and conditions of work. Her publications include the co-edited…
Akosua Adomako Ampofo
Akosua Adomako Ampofo is a Professor of African and Gender Studies at the Institute of African Studies, and the Ag. Dean, International Programmes at the University of Ghana (UG). From 2010-2015 she was the Director of the Institute of African Studies (UG) and was also the foundation Director of UG’s Centre for Gender Studies and…
Hope Chigudu
Hope Chigudu is a feminist activist with decades of experience in feminist movement building and feminist leadership development. Over the years, Hope has honed her skills in organizational development, health and well-being; a philosophy of work/life balance enunciated in her book: Strategies for Building Organizations with a Soul. It is a manual that offers a…
Akosua K. Darkwah
Akosua K. Darkwah is Associate Professor of Sociology at the University of Ghana. She holds a PhD in Sociology from the University of Wisconsin-Madison. Her research focuses primarily on the ways in which global economic policies and practices reconfigure women’s work in the Ghanaian context. Her current research explores the implications of the development of cultural policies for women…
Gertrude Dzifa Torvikey
Gertrude Dzifa Torvikey is a Research Fellow at the Institute of Statistical, Social and Economic Research (ISSER) and the Programme Officer on the Feminist Africa Project at the Institute of African Studies, University of Ghana. She also teaches Gender courses at the Centre for Gender Studies and Advocacy (CEGENSA), Institute of African Studies (IAS) and…